involves organizing or strengthening community-level individuals, groups and/or organizations. Community organizing may occur around a specific purpose or may be part of a broader community development process.
Initiatives that build social and political resources in communities by helping residents mobilize themselves and their assets.
Organizing people, usually at a grassroots level, for creating change through political action.
Community organizing is a process through which an expert helps a group of individuals engage in collective action to address a social problem. Community organizers help people work together to get what they want or need -- they may help people work together to get more jobs in a community; they may help people fight an unfair government law or ruling; they may help people work together to force a polluter to clean up its industrial process, so that it no longer pollutes the environment (or at least, pollutes it to a lesser extent.)
Broad-based community organizing is multi-dimensional and takes on a plurality of forms. All the steps outlined below are designed to carry a community closer to the development of a genuine public life through the identification and training of leaders.
Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. While organizing describes any activity involving people interacting with one another in a formal manner, much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy.
